CVE-2024-57977

MEDIUMNVD 5.55.5—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2025-02-27. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
5.5
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 0%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

memcg: fix soft lockup in the OOM process

A soft lockup issue was found in the product with about 56,000 tasks were in the OOM cgroup, it was traversing them when the soft lockup was triggered.

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 23s! [VM Thread:1503066] CPU: 2 PID: 1503066 Comm: VM Thread Kdump: loaded Tainted: G Hardware name: Huawei Cloud OpenStack Nova, BIOS RIP: 0010:console_unlock+0x343/0x540 RSP: 0000:ffffb751447db9a0 EFLAGS: 00000247 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff13 RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000ffffffff RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: 0000000000000247 RBP: ffffffffafc71f90 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000040 R10: 0000000000000080 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffffafc74bd0 R13: ffffffffaf60a220 R14: 0000000000000247 R15: 0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f2fe6ad91f0 CR3: 00000004b2076003 CR4: 0000000000360ee0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: vprintk_emit+0x193/0x280 printk+0x52/0x6e dump_task+0x114/0x130 mem_cgroup_scan_tasks+0x76/0x100 dump_header+0x1fe/0x210 oom_kill_process+0xd1/0x100 out_of_memory+0x125/0x570 mem_cgroup_out_of_memory+0xb5/0xd0 try_charge+0x720/0x770 mem_cgroup_try_charge+0x86/0x180 mem_cgroup_try_charge_delay+0x1c/0x40 do_anonymous_page+0xb5/0x390 handle_mm_fault+0xc4/0x1f0

This is because thousands of processes are in the OOM cgroup, it takes a long time to traverse all of them. As a result, this lead to soft lockup in the OOM process.

To fix this issue, call 'cond_resched' in the 'mem_cgroup_scan_tasks' function per 1000 iterations. For global OOM, call 'touch_softlockup_watchdog' per 1000 iterations to avoid this issue.

CVSS v3
5.5
EG Score
5.5(medium)
EG Risk
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EPSS
8.0%
KEV
Not listed

Published

February 27, 2025

Last Modified

July 14, 2026

Advisory Details (10)

Auto-updated Jul 17, 2026
Patch available.
generic Patch Available

[SECURITY] [DLA 4193-1] linux-6.1 security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html
generic Patch Available

[SECURITY] [DLA 4178-1] linux security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html
generic

memcg: fix soft lockup in the OOM process - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3a3741db8c1202aa959c77df3a4c361612d1eb1
generic

memcg: fix soft lockup in the OOM process - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ade81479c7dda1ce3eedb215c78bc615bbd04f06
generic

memcg: fix soft lockup in the OOM process - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9042dbc1ed4bf25a5f5c699d10c3d676abf8ca2
generic

memcg: fix soft lockup in the OOM process - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/972486d37169fe85035e81b8c5dff21f70df1173
generic

memcg: fix soft lockup in the OOM process - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72f2c0b7c152c2983ed51d48c3272cab4f34d965
generic

memcg: fix soft lockup in the OOM process - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46576834291869457d4772bb7df72d7c2bb3d57f
generic

memcg: fix soft lockup in the OOM process - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/110399858194c71f11afefad6e7be9e3876b284f
generic

memcg: fix soft lockup in the OOM process - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a09d56e1682c951046bf15542b3e9553046c9f6

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2024-57977(3)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(31)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-fips (5.15.0.1083.73) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-18.04-edge (5.4.0.216.208) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-lts-22.04 (5.15.0.1083.79) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-edge (5.15.0.1083.92~20.04.1) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-fips (5.15.0.140.80) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-fips (5.4.0.1149.91) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-fips (5.4.0.1151.88) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-xilinx-zynqmp-tools-5.4.0-1064 (5.4.0-1064.68) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-24.04-edge (6.11.0-26.26~24.04.1) @ noble2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oracle-edge (5.4.0.1144.154~18.04.1) @ bionic2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gke-5.15 (5.15.0.1081.80) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-ibm-edge (5.4.0.1092.97~18.04.1) @ bionic2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-fips (5.15.0.1089.74) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-aws (6.11.0-1014.15) @ oracular2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi-hwe-18.04-edge (5.4.0.1129.142~18.04.1) @ bionic2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-aws-lts-20.04 (5.4.0.1146.143) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oracle-64k (6.11.0-1016.17) @ oracular2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-realtime (5.15.0.1084.88) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-aws-edge (5.4.0.1146.156~18.04.1) @ bionic2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-kvm (5.4.0.1133.129) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-aws-fips (5.15.0.1084.80) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-ibm-lts-20.04 (5.4.0.1092.121) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-18.04-edge (5.4.0.216.236~18.04.1) @ bionic2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-bluefield (5.4.0.1105.101) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi-nolpae (5.15.0.1078.76) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-aws-edge (5.15.0.1084.91~20.04.1) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-xilinx-zynqmp-tools-host (5.15.0-1050.54) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-iot (5.4.0.1051.49) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-fips (5.4.0.1120.117) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
redhatkernel-0:6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_12025-11-11redhat
linuxKernel @ 5.4.291—osv

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(23)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2024-57977?
CVE-2024-57977 is a medium vulnerability published on February 27, 2025. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memcg: fix soft lockup in the OOM process A soft lockup issue was found in the product with about 56,000 tasks were in the OOM cgroup, it was traversing them when the soft lockup was triggered. watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2…
When was CVE-2024-57977 disclosed?
CVE-2024-57977 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on February 27, 2025, with the most recent update on July 14, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2024-57977 actively exploited?
CVE-2024-57977 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 8.0% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2024-57977?
CVE-2024-57977 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2024-57977?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2024-57977, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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